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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Embedded Rust

  • Survey of the no_std, core, and embedded Rust ecosystems
  • Selecting a target and interpreting target triples
  • Configuring rustup, cargo, and target-specific toolchains

Tooling, Build & Debug Workflows

  • Leveraging cargo, cargo-embed, probe-run, and OpenOCD workflows
  • Flashing and debugging via hardware probes (ST-Link, JLink)
  • Addressing CI requirements for building embedded Rust firmware

Hardware Abstraction and Peripheral Access

  • Grasping embedded-hal traits and driver design patterns
  • Utilizing peripheral access crates (PACs) and device crates (svd2rust)
  • Creating and implementing HAL drivers and board support crates (BSCs)

Memory Safety, Concurrency & Real-Time Systems

  • Implementing safe patterns for shared state and mutable references within interrupts
  • Employing RTIC and other concurrency models for real-time applications
  • Managing heap vs. stack usage, allocators, and avoiding dynamic allocation

Error Handling, Testing & Reliability

  • Adopting error handling patterns suited to constrained environments
  • Conducting unit testing on the host and integration testing on hardware
  • Performing fault analysis, logging, and post-mortem reviews

Performance, Power & Resource Optimization

  • Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing critical code paths
  • Applying code size reduction techniques and linker scripts
  • Implementing power management strategies and low-power design patterns

Deployment, Security & Ecosystem Best Practices

  • Establishing secure boot, firmware signing, and update mechanisms
  • Addressing supply-chain considerations and dependency management
  • Planning the migration of C firmware to Rust and leveraging community resources

Conclusion and Future Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of core Rust concepts: ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes
  • Practical experience writing non-trivial Rust programs (intermediate level)
  • Familiarity with embedded systems concepts: memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, and peripherals

Target Audience

  • Embedded firmware engineers aiming to adopt Rust
  • Software engineers with Rust experience transitioning into low-level systems
  • Technical leads assessing Rust for embedded product development

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